Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VBScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 684 621 794
Rank change year-on-year -63 +173 +38
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 18 9 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.022% 0.076%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.066% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 57
10th Percentile £26,100 £35,300 £38,200
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £48,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £58,250 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,750 £41,250 £54,000
% change year-on-year +23.03% -23.61% +40.26%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,044 13,610 32,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 33.11% 34.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,325 10,242 24,956
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,475
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VBScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VBScript job vacancy trend in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBScript

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -58 18 £70,000 +55.56% 11
UK excluding London -74 12 £50,750 +23.03% 5
Work from Home +16 10 £75,000 +57.89% 8
London -8 6 £70,000 - 9
South East -32 5 £95,000 +153.33% 3
North West -32 3 £26,500 -44.21% 1
South West -40 3 £75,000 -
North of England -64 3 £26,500 -42.70% 1
East of England -26 1 £25,500 -29.17%

VBScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (22.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Power BI
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (27.78%) Tableau
3 4 (22.22%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Balsamiq
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) Legal
4 3 (16.67%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Senior
2 8 (44.44%) Consultant
2 8 (44.44%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (27.78%) Software Consultant
4 4 (22.22%) Applications Specialist
4 4 (22.22%) IT Support
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Support
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
1 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
1 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Unix
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Mac OS
3 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Android
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) ERP
2 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 5 (27.78%) Asset Management
4 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (27.78%) Contract Management
4 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (27.78%) KYC
4 5 (27.78%) Software Asset Management
4 5 (27.78%) Software Licensing
4 5 (27.78%) Task Automation
4 5 (27.78%) Validation
4 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Business Process Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) VBA
2 8 (44.44%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 7 (38.89%) C#
4 6 (33.33%) VB
5 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
6 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
7 3 (16.67%) Bash
7 3 (16.67%) Go
7 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
8 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CITP
1 3 (16.67%) CREST Certified
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle
4 5 (27.78%) Adobe
4 5 (27.78%) IBM
4 5 (27.78%) Snow
5 4 (22.22%) SYSPRO
6 3 (16.67%) Veeam
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco
7 1 (5.56%) iManage